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While many American families defended slavery in the early nineteenth century, Benjamin Hanby's family did not. Benjamin Hanby was born in July 1833 in Rushville, Ohio to Bishop William Hanby and Ann Miller Hanby. Ben's father grew up in poverty i…
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In 1856, Benjamin Hanby published his first song, Darling Nellie Gray, a tale of fugitive slave Joe Selby, who was en route to Canada. Selby died in the Hanby's Rushville house in 1842. Selby had hoped to buy the freedom of his love, Nelly, who ha…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20WS_blendon-townships-early-presbyterian-churches-and-church-bell_Westerville-OH.html
Side A The first Blendon Presbyterian Church was located at the intersection of Dempsey and Hempstead Roads on what is part of Blendon Central Cemetery. Timothy Lee (1785-1862) donated land at the northeast corner for a church and cemetery. The ch…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20WQ_phelps-acre-park_Westerville-OH.html
Phelps Acre Park
Dedicated October 24, 2015
We want to express our deep
gratitude to the Central College
Presbyterian Church for loaning us
this historic church bell from one of
Blendon Township's first Presbyterian
churches and placing it …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20WD_the-alkire-house_Westerville-OH.html
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The Alkire House
Two Fifty Nine North State Street was built in pre-Civil war
days by Garrit Sharp. To lay out the floor plan in a true direction,
the North star was sighted one night in 1849 and construction
was started the next day The …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2055_agnes-meyer-driscoll_Westerville-OH.html
Side A
The house at this address, 110 South State Street, was the childhood home of Agnes Meyer Driscoll (1889- 1971). Known as "the first lady of naval cryptology," her career spanned from World War I to the Cold War. Driscoll attend…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RVT_temperance-row-historic-district_Westerville-OH.html
Side A
Here lived the reformers of the Anti-Saloon League of America
who led the movement that turned the United States "dry" in
1920 with the 18th Amendment prohibiting the manufacture, sale
or transportation of intoxicating liquor. Moving …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RV5_benjamin-russell-hanby_Westerville-OH.html
Song writer and minister of the United
Brethren Church, Hanby was an Otterbein College
graduate, class of 1858, known throughout the
world for the inspiring songs, "Darling Nellie
Gray," "Up on the Housetop," and "Who is He
in Yonder Stall."
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ0V_mcdannald-pioneer-homestead_Westerville-OH.html
This brick home was built in 1856 by John McDannald, son of Samuel and Bell (Craig) McDannald who came from Virginia in 1813. The McDannalds were prominent in the development of Blendon Township, The Central College of Ohio, and The Central Colleg…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHPM_edward-phelps_Westerville-OH.html
the son of Timothy Phelps,the son of Cornelius Phelps,the son of Timothy Phelps,the son of William Phelps,who came from TewksburyEngland in 1630 andsetteled at Dorchester, Mass.In 1635, setteled Widsor, Conn.[illegible]He [Edward Phelps] with his …